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The Girls Who Went Away (1)
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Brad Skow

April 2024

Holmes Changes his Mind
The Birth of Free Speech in America
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Naive Sprung Rhythm
Metric poetry is rhythmic language laid above, and to some degree matching, an underlying pulse. If you do not know where in that pulse you are, you may…
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On Hamlet
One does not just walk into Mordor. The same might be said of Hamlet criticism. But in my naive, Hobbit-like way, I read Nicholas Brooke’s essay on…
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Romanticism, II: Art and Politics.
Part I treated Romantic ideas about Reality and Knowledge and Virtue (in Isaiah Berlin’s telling), but wasn’t it primarily a movement in the arts? Yes…
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Brad Skow

March 2024

History Lessons
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Romanticism, I: Revaluation of Values
The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
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Side Note: The Documentary Fallacy Fallacy
In Who’s afraid of A. C. Bradley? Henry Oliver comes out in favor of “talk[ing] about Shakespeare’s characters as if they were people.” He…
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On Balance
In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was in disgrace and in the political wilderness. His warnings of the Nazi danger, and of the dangers of appeasement…
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On Toleration
Intolerance and polarization are on the up, or so the headlines say. If so, it’s happened before, and been far worse. Thomas Jefferson wrote, it does me…
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Sugar-Coated Pills
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February 2024

Free Indirect Style in The Red Badge of Courage
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